Lomography: The Crazy Side of Amateur Photography

In the early 1990s, two students in Austria gave a whole new dimension to photography. Russian made Lomo Kompakt Automat was the camera that started what is known today as Lomography.
Those students had the idea to take photos from the hip. Take mindless shots (usually) without even looking into the viewfinder.
The idea was just crazy enough to work… and it worked magnificently.
Vibrant high contrast high color images received awes of everyone.

Today Lomography is a brand with a cult like following. Lomography is still done on analog cameras and requires no special photography techniques at all, and that’s why this post does not include any photography tips. Now let’s have a look at some Lomographs.

10 Rules of Lomography

1. Take your camera everywhere you go
2. Use it any time – day and night
3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it
4. Try the shot from the hip
5. Approach the objects of your Lomographic desire as close as possible
6. Don’t think (William Firebrace)
7. Be fast
8. You don’t have to know beforehand what you captured on film
9. Afterwards either
10. Don’t worry about any rules

To know about the camera/film/lens or anything else about the photo, please click on the title and reach the source page.